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ROU1768 Air Canada Rouge

Boeing 737MAX 8 · C-GEPB

· 1:17Quality 79lost lockclip shortside-on

3D replay

Software-steadied: the hops of the camera motor are smoothed out (plane wobble −76%). Download

Trace

Where the aircraft sat in the frame, second by second. Click the chart to jump the video there.

—FOV —az —el —pose —
Lock

Events

Tracking metrics

How well the camera kept the aircraft centred. Tap a metric for what it means and what good looks like.

Lockshare of the pass
79%
First lockfrom target selected
5.3 s
Centring, medianaz / el while locked
0.12° / 0.10°
Centring, 90th pctaz / el while locked
0.37° / 0.55°
Tightest field of viewhorizontal
3.4°
Time to 8°from first lock
5.0 s
Time to tightestfrom first lock
64.2 s
Time at telefield of view ≤ 5.5°
61.6 s
Jitter at teleaz / el, standard deviation
0.15° / 0.19°
Swing at teleaz / el, peak to peak
0.85° / 1.39°
Pan reversalsper 10 s at tele
0.0
Largest pan hopin any 1 s at tele
1.66°
Largest tilt hopin any 1 s at tele
1.00°
Pose error, mediancommand vs camera
0.53°
Largest correctionvision vs prediction
2.63°
Zoom steps
34

Aircraft & route

Flight
ROU1768
Registration
C-GEPB
Type
Boeing 737MAX 8
Airline
Air Canada Rouge
From
—
To
—
Ground speed
242 kt
Altitude at closest
11,025 ft
Vertical rate
-576 ft/min
Category
A3
ICAO hex
c050c0

Pass geometry

Max elevation
26.9°
Elevation at start → end
26.8° → 14.4°
Azimuth at start → end
10° N → 70° ENE
Closest-approach azimuth
14° NNE
Minimum slant range
7.4 km
Heading at closest
108° ESE
Aspect at closest
side-on (86°)
Turn
straight (0°)
Departure
No
Zenith pass
No
Dead-zone wrap
No
Duration
1:17 (77.1 s)
Lock
79%

Build & tuning

The tracker build that flew this pass and the live settings that mattered, so passes can be compared across changes.

Build
2026-10-16e — A/B mountPrior + candidate diagnostics
Commit
ffe4b92
Node
v22.22.2
Camera
TONGVEO 20x PTZ · 1920×1080 @ 30 fps
Clip
40.4 MB · 40.8 s · offset -0.6 s
pursuit
velocity
maxLeadSec
3
panLatencySec
0.6
tiltLatencySec
0.4
rippleDeg
0.5
rippleTeleDeg
0.25
maxSpeedStepFwps
0.45
speedReachFrac
0.8
lockedSigmaDeg
0.35
sigmaGrowthDps
0.1
aimLeadSec
-0.1
correctionSlewDps
2.5
kp
1
ki
0.6

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